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Jack
Aliases
  • Senior Jack 4
Affiliation
  • Noren Workshop logistics wizard 1
  • Jack's squad 4
Age Adult of unknown age at Ch4; about 184 years in the story at his death (estimate, as of Ch261) 10
Wizard level Second-level wizard 9
Status Dead 10
First appearance Ch41

Jack is a logistics wizard of Noren Workshop, the alchemy senior who briefs the new apprentices at the discipline-selection plaza and later reunites with Jie Ming at the Junction.13 A second-level wizard of ordinary aptitude, he leads his own squad and recruits Jie Ming for a rescue mission that is really an ambush born of jealousy.4910 He dies with his party to Jie Ming, the Black Giants and the surviving recruits.10

Relationships

  • Jie Ming: Junior he briefs, then a mutual-support partner for the plane war, then the prey he picks out of envy.1310
  • Clark: The Mentor whose disciple he never earned the right to call himself.10
  • Levin Mills: Signaled by his metal-bird artifact during the Floating Camp affair.5
  • Mars: A senior he explains away as having had only third-level aptitude.2
  • Squad: Mechanical exoskeleton armor, a third-level potioncraft senior, members lost and replaced over the centuries.3

Background

Jack chose the logistics discipline on his parents' advice but lacks the intelligence and aptitude for it; he remains an ordinary apprentice who never earned the right to call himself Mentor Clark's disciple.10 He is one of the 153 logistics and combat wizards who survived from a batch of over five thousand, and he helped build the Floating Camp.14

Abilities

Ability Acquired Notes
Wizard level Ch2609 Second-level wizard.9
Metal-bird wizard artifact Ch2545 Released to signal Levin Mills.5
Anti-mind artifact Ch2576 Worn artifact that resists mind- and curse-type attacks.6
Alchemical armament Ch257-2587 Unfolds by mechanical compression into a humanoid construct dozens of meters tall with flame-spraying palms; its charged beam equals a third-level wizard's full strength.7

Timeline

  • Ch4-5: Briefs Jie Ming on the fifty-to-one combat-to-logistics ratio, Mars's aptitude, Noren No. 13's role as a training base and the wisdom screening.12
  • Ch245: Reunites with Jie Ming at the Junction plaza and agrees on mutual support in the plane war.3
  • Ch252-254: Recruits Jie Ming in the camp market for the rescue mission; signals Levin Mills.45
  • Ch257-259: Fails to buy Jie Ming's Talisman-Rune Artifact; leads the ambush at the canyon's end.68
  • Ch261: Confesses his jealousy and is killed with his party.10
  • Ch277, Ch291: Remembered as the face that pierced the fog in Jie Ming's heart, and as a companion in the Void Plane's spatial distortion zone where the Prowler prototypes were found.1112

  1. Chapter 4: The Harsh Truth ↩↩↩↩↩↩

  2. Chapter 5: Orthodoxy and Testing ↩↩

  3. Chapter 245: Old Acquaintances ↩↩↩↩

  4. Chapter 252: Teaming Up ↩↩↩↩↩

  5. Chapter 254: The Spatial Distortion Zone ↩↩↩↩

  6. Chapter 257: Battle ↩↩↩

  7. Chapters 257-258 ↩↩

  8. Chapter 259: Target and Betrayal ↩

  9. Chapter 260: The Battle Begins ↩↩↩↩

  10. Chapter 261: Jealousy ↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩

  11. Chapter 277: Advancing to Golden Core ↩

  12. Chapter 291: The Prowler ↩